When Laura Ingraham couldn’t think of anything better to engage Meghan McCain with when attacking her political views other than her weight and Ingraham’s view that McCain is a plus-size girl, I was happy to see @McCainBlogette invoke Tyra by telling Ingraham to “Kiss my fat ass!”

Politics isn’t about weight. If it was, would Rush Limbaugh or Newt Gingrich be as successful as they are? This stooping to the weight thing (which is just the updated version of the bully yelling on the playground that you’re ugly and your mother dresses you funny) gets tossed around so much for women (even by women) and it’s time to stop.

So, I’m calling for a “Kiss My Fat Ass” campaign.

When someone of the opposite party (either one — progressive or conservative) engages in the kind of juvenile smack-down that Ingraham tried, I’m calling on people of good political conviction (no flaming, PLEASE) to invoke the #KMFA mantra.

At a certain point, that’s all that’s left to be said when others use the under-inspired equivalent response of “Oh, yeah?” when they can’t attack you any other way.

Good, clean political debate? Yeah! Vigorous discussions about differing viewpoints? Bring it. But when you get into how we look or dress or part our hair, it’s time to just invoke the simple phrase “Kiss My Fat Ass.”

Not only is it the one appropriate response, but it will make us feel better, too! And if Meghan McCain is a plus-size girl, then I’m only one step away from the Lane Bryant store myself.

And, Kelley, that’s the thing that really ticks me off. There is no way, Meghan McCain is overweight. That someone like Ingraham would stoop to what she did, is just further evidence that the GOP talking heads need to get a grip.

There’s the gender double standard, too. An overweight man can be considered successful, but an overweight or even average weight woman will catch grief for not getting or maintaining a supermodel figure. A close friend may lose her daughter to anorexia. The whole body image crisis hits very close to home right now.

Women attacking women. Yup, that’s really gonna boost us all. We need to re-examine this issue as a culture. I have a friend who died of anorexia when we were 16. She was a chunky kid who lost her baby fat later than everyone else. Nothing about her was fat. Society made her think she was fat and unattractive. Meghan is in no way overweight. Get real, folks.

hey there – I was sitting on jury duty with The View on in the background and i just loved that megan mccain and tweeted KISS MY FAT ASS as fast as i could. Must say I really enjoyed her throughout the entire campaign…just imagined her with a different last name!